J. C. Guild

J.
C. Guild, inspector of mines for Tennessee, and a member of the firm of
Dickerson & Guild, civil and mining engineers and analytical chemists,
is a native of Sumner County, Tenn. He was reared and educated in
Nashville, and graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1883. He was in
the service of the States as assistant geologist, during which time he
collected all the minerals sent to the Southern exposition at
Louisville, and also arranged the mineral cabinet for the State at
Nashville, and assisted in collecting the specimens for the same. As
inspector of mines he makes semi-annual reports to the State
commissioner of agricultural statistics, etc., besides many private
reports of individual mines. He located in Chattanooga in 1886, and
October of the same year married Miss Mary Orr, a native of Nashville.
Mr. Guild is a member of the Greek Society, "Beta Theta Pi." He is also
grandson of Jo. C. Guild, author of "Old Times in Tennessee." His
father, George B. Guild, an able attorney at Nashville, is a native of
Nashville, and was a member of the Legislature in 1872, was also
formerly county court clerk of Sumner County. The mother's maiden name
was Georgie Thompson. The parents are both living, and our subject, two
brothers and one sister are the surviving members of a family of five
children.